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WSIU Public Radio serves a region of rural southern Illinois known as "Little Egypt". The 30-county region is defined by the Mississippi, Ohio and Wabash Rivers. WSIU signed on the air in September of 1958. WSIU operates FM stations in Carbondale, IL; Mt. Vernon, IL; and Olney , IL. WSIU is also home to the Southern Illinois Radio Information Service providing reading services for the blind and visually impaired.

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Caption: Host Bryan Kelso Crow, Credit: Celtic Connections
Celtic Connections 
60 Pieces

Public Radio's Weekly Hour of Music From the Celtic Traditions

  • From: WSIU
  • Updated: Jan 11, 2013

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The Best of Celtic Connections 1942
From: WSIU
Series: Celtic Connections
Caption: Host Bryan Kelso Crow, Credit: Celtic Connections
In the midst of the autumn harvest, we look back to the "field" recordings from around the middle of the 20th century.

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 16
Celtic Connections 1941
From: WSIU
Series: Celtic Connections
Caption: Host Bryan Kelso Crow, Credit: Celtic Connections
A special studio session with Kyle Carey and Bryan Kelso Crow. A delightful hour of music and conversation as Carey plays live in the studio and ta...

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 19
Celtic Connections 1940
From: WSIU
Series: Celtic Connections
Caption: Host Bryan Kelso Crow, Credit: Celtic Connections
Revisit new releases from the Spring of 2019 featuring The Trails of Cato, Danu, Back West, Brass Lassie, and more!

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 20
Celtic Connections 1939
From: WSIU
Series: Celtic Connections
Caption: Host Bryan Kelso Crow, Credit: Celtic Connections
The songs we feature this week started life as poems, by the likes of James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and others. They have been set to music by...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 17
Celtic Connections 1938
From: WSIU
Series: Celtic Connections
Caption: Host Bryan Kelso Crow, Credit: Celtic Connections
Taking our title from the 1922 book by Chicago's Irish police Chief Francis O'Neill, "Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody," we picked up some stray t...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 19
Celtic Connections 1937
From: WSIU
Series: Celtic Connections
Caption: Host Bryan Kelso Crow, Credit: Celtic Connections
Scottish and Irish immigration to the New World inspired a lot of songs and tunes, with stories about the sadness of leaving the green fields of ho...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 18
Celtic Connections 1936
From: WSIU
Series: Celtic Connections
Caption: Host Bryan Kelso Crow, Credit: Celtic Connections
Join Celtic Connections this week for some of the latest from the Celtic music world. Featuring Kennedy's Kitchen, Lilt, We Banjo 3, Back West, Da...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 19
Celtic Connetions 1935
From: WSIU
Series: Celtic Connections
Caption: Host Bryan Kelso Crow, Credit: Celtic Connections
Our friendly neighbors to the north provide all of this week's music as we sample Canadian Celtic, French, and Anglo music from coast to coast.

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2019
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 19
Celtic Connetions 1934
From: WSIU
Series: Celtic Connections
Caption: Host Bryan Kelso Crow, Credit: Celtic Connections
This week we raid the record shelves to highlight tracks from no-longer-new releases, some going back several decades ago.

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 20
Celtic Connetions 1933
From: WSIU
Series: Celtic Connections
Caption: Host Bryan Kelso Crow, Credit: Celtic Connections
Celtic Connections Program #1933, "Songs of the Selkies" In Scottish and Irish mythology, the legend of the selkies figures prominently, the crea...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 22

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